AGORA TOPCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-05-06 (in 1y)
Last made up 2026-04-22
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£6M
+3.5% vs 2023
Net assets
-£70M
-42.9% vs 2023
Employees
92
+2.2% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£21M
-18% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- AGORA TOPCO LIMITED 2021-05-07 → present
- SHOO 657 LIMITED 2021-04-23 → 2021-05-07
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Unclassified median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £15,634,408 | £16,033,519 | |
| Operating profit | -£7,561,355 | -£7,776,467 | |
| Profit before tax | -£18,109,988 | -£21,369,576 | |
| Net profit | -£18,882,026 | -£21,888,606 | |
| Cash | £5,362,146 | £5,551,196 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £77,017,219 | £68,658,689 | |
| Net assets | -£49,129,374 | -£70,215,410 | |
| Equity | -£49,129,374 | -£70,215,410 | |
| Average employees | 90 | 92 | |
| Wages | £6,428,890 | £7,371,078 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -48.4% | -48.5% | |
| Net margin | -120.8% | -136.5% | |
| Return on capital employed | -9.8% | -11.3% | |
| Current ratio | 0.93x | 0.93x | |
| Interest cover | -0.62x | -0.57x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Accordingly, the directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and have concluded that it is appropriate to prepare these financial statements on the going concern basis.”
Group structure
- AGORA TOPCO LIMITED · parent
- Agora Midco Limited 100%
- Agora Midco 2 Limited 100%
- Agora Bidco Limited 100%
- Symposium Capital Ltd 100%
- Canary Ltd 100%
- BioPhorum Operations Group Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “On the 23rd of August 2024 the Group acquired Canary Ltd, a training organisation trading as Brookwood providing face to face and online training courses in the field of clinical development. Canary Ltd contributed operating profit of £0.1m to the Group in the year.”
- “In 2024 BioPhorum launched its twelfth Phorum focused on quality, connecting quality leaders across the biopharma manufacturing value chain to enable more therapies to reach patients safely and reliably. The Phorum launched strongly with 13 memberships sold in 2024.”
- “BioPhorum is expanding into developing and selling products in the data platforms and services space and in late 2024 launched a Host Cell Protein data platform as a commercial standalone product.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KOBEWKA, Deborah Karen | Director | 2024-11-07 | Dec 1961 | British |
| O'REILLY, Kevin Joseph | Director | 2025-06-02 | Dec 1991 | Irish |
| PANDIT, Kunal | Director | 2021-05-05 | Oct 1979 | British |
| TAGG, Michael James | Director | 2025-08-14 | Aug 1982 | British |
| WHITMAN, Darren | Director | 2021-05-17 | Nov 1966 | British |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| BJÖRKLUND, Håkan | Director | 2021-08-05 | 2026-05-05 |
| BRIGGS, Simon Matthew | Director | 2021-04-23 | 2021-05-05 |
| HAWKINS, Timothy Edward | Director | 2022-04-05 | 2024-04-30 |
| HULL, Adam Alexander Ross | Director | 2021-05-05 | 2025-06-02 |
| JONES, Stephen William | Director | 2021-05-17 | 2025-02-28 |
| SPACIE, Daniel John | Director | 2021-05-17 | 2021-11-05 |
| WOOD, Timothy Nicholas | Director | 2022-05-12 | 2024-09-10 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoosmiths Nominees Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-04-23 | Ceased 2021-05-05 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 76 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2026-01-07 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-10-02 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-06 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2026-05-06 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2026-01-07 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2026-01-06 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2026-01-02 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2026-01-02 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-08-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-12 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2025-06-12 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2025-06-05 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-06-05 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-05-03 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-23 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-11-26 | SH06 | capital | Capital cancellation shares | |
| 2024-11-26 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares | |
| 2024-11-07 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-09 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2024-10-02 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-09-25 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 13
- Capital events
- 8
- Officers appointed
- 2
- Officers resigned
- 2
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
+2.6%
£15,634,408 £16,033,519
-
Cash
+3.5%
£5,362,146 £5,551,196
-
Net assets
-42.9%
-£49,129,374 -£70,215,410
-
Employees
+2.2%
90 92
-
Operating profit
-2.8%
-£7,561,355 -£7,776,467
-
Profit before tax
-18%
-£18,109,988 -£21,369,576
-
Wages
+14.7%
£6,428,890 £7,371,078
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers